BORN IN/BIRTH DATE: Pereira, COLOMBIA/Sept. 10th, 1976.

BAND MEMBER SINCE: 1996 (also member of the pre-INTERNAL SUFFERING band SUFFER since 1994)

FAVORITE INTERNAL SUFFERING SONG/ALBUM:

 

Songs:

 

Outside Dwellers (From "Supreme Knowledge Domain" & "Unmerciful Extermination")

Breeders Of Chaos (From "Unmercyful Extermination")

Chaotic Matrix (From "Chaotic Matrix")

Colossal Vortex (From "Chaotic Matrix")

Cosmic Ancient Mountain (From "Chaotic Matrix")

Choronzonic Force Domination (From "Choronzonic Force Domination")

Dispersion & Darkness (From "Choronzonic Force Domination")

Magnificent Uranus Power (From "Awakening Of The Rebel")

Evocation Of The Secret Gate (From "Awakening Of The Rebel")

Masters Of Sorcery (From "Awakening Of The Rebel")

Thelemic Conqueror (From "Awakening Of The Rebel")

 

Albums:

 

"Awakening Of The Rebel" CD 2006

"Chaotic Matrix" CD 2002

 

GEAR:

 

Head: AMPEG SVT 4 PRO

Cabinet: AMPEG SVT 810E

Basses: 2x SPECTOR NS-5XL (Black/Blue & Black)

Pickups: EMG-40DC

Tuner: Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner

Strings: DR High Beam & Spector Stainless (Medium Gauge)

Strap: Planet Waves Polypropelyne Strap for Bass

Others: Monster Performer 500 Bass Guitar Cable & Dunlop Strap Locks

 

 

HOBBIES: Reading (see complete list of favorite book/authors at the end of this page), Listening To Music (see full list of fave bands & albums below), Collecting Metal Vinyl, CD's, Cassettes (proud of my ever-growing metal memorabilia!), Cult Horror Flicks (Gotta love re-issues of obscure films on DVD format!), Old School Anime Mecha Series (Mazinger Z, Grendizer, Voltes V, Combattler, Force Five Starvengers, Getter Robo, Gaiking, Daimos, Transfomers (G1 mainly), among others), Surfing The Web, Drinking Beer.

FAVORITE MUSIC STYLE: Metal in general: the older, the better.

FAVORITE BANDS:

 

Death Metal: DEATH, DEICIDE, MALEVOLENT CREATION, MORBID ANGEL, CANNIBAL CORPSE, ANGEL CORPSE, SUFFOCATION, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION, INCANTATION, HATE ETERNAL, DEEDS OF FLESH, NILE, CARCASS, DISMEMBER, NIHILIST/ENTOMBED, CARNAGE, GOD MACABRE, UNLEASHED, FUNEBRE, GRAVE, ROTTREVORE, MONSTROSITY, MORGOTH, BROKEN HOPE, INFAMY, SADISTIC INTENT, DERANGED, KRISIUN, DISGORGE (both!), OBITUARY, RIPPING CORPSE, PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, BOLT THROWER, SINISTER, HYPOCRISY, MASSACRE, NAPALM DEATH, NECROPHOBIC, SEANCE, SADUS, GOREFEST, GORGUTS, ALTAR, ARMOURED ANGEL, NUNSLAUGHTER, INCUBUS, MACABRE, NECRONY, REBAELLIUM, BENEDICTION, BEHEMOTH, VADER, LUCIFERION, MASSACRA, PARABELLUM, REENCARNACION, MASACRE, REPULSION, SOULBURN, DIABOLIC.

 

Thrash-Speed Metal/Crossover: SLAYER, EXODUS, POSSESSED, DARK ANGEL, CELTIC FROST, HELLHAMMER, WHIPLASH, EXUMER, KREATOR, SODOM, DESTRUCTION, ASSASSIN, RAZOR, SACRIFICE, EXORCIST, LIVING DEATH, DARKNESS (Ger), VOIVOD, ANVIL BITCH, TESTAMENT, METALLICA, METAL CHURCH, HEATHEN, SABBAT (UK), ONSLAUGHT, VIO-LENCE, ANNIHILATOR, ANTHRAX, PILEDRIVER, CORONER, VIOLENT FORCE, DEFIANCE, FLOTSAM & JETSAM, FORBIDDEN, HALLOWS EVE, HELLOWEEN, INDESTROY, MEGADETH, MORBID SAINT, MUTILATOR, NOMED, D.R.I., S.O.D., NUCLEAR ASSAULT, OVERKILL, HIRAX, POISON (Ger), RIGOR MORTIS, ARTILLERY, SACRED REICH, MORTAL SIN, VIKING, I.N.C., SEPULTURA, TANKARD, WITCHTRAP, VECTOM, WOLFPACK, LAAZ ROCKIT, TYRANT'S REIGN, ANGEL DUST, AGENT STEEL, VIRUS, POST MORTEM, BLOOD FEAST, DESTRUCTOR, BULLDOZER, INFERNAL MAJESTY, DEMOLITION HAMMER, HELSTAR, MX, PROTECTOR, WITCHES HAMMER, SINDROME, ABATTOIR, MANDATOR, CYCLONE, THE ACCUSED, CRUMBSUCKERS, AT WAR, EXECUTIONER, IRON ANGEL, BROKEN BONES, MISFITS, AGNOSTIC FRONT, SLAUGHTER (Canada), DEKAPITATOR, CACOPHONY, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, ATROPHY, SANCTUARY.

 

Heavy Metal: ACID, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, DIO, ACCEPT, KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, MANOWAR, MANILLA ROAD, WARLOCK, TWISTED SISTER, BUDGIE, OZ, OZZY OSBOURNE, SAVATAGE, V8, HERMETICA, KRAKEN, W.A.S.P., GRIM REAPER, METALUCIFER, SATAN'S HOST, LOUDNESS, QUEENSRYCHE

 

Black Metal: BATHORY, MAYHEM, EMPEROR, DISSECTION, DARK FUNERAL, IMMORTAL, MARDUK, DARK THRONE, BURZUM, ABRUPTUM, THY PRIMORDIAL, ABIGOR, ABSU, LORD BELIAL, ENSLAVED, HADES (Nor), GEHENNA, MOLESTED, SACRAMENTUM, SATYRICON, BESTIAL WARLUST, CORPSE MOLESTATION, BLASPHEMY, BEHERIT, SARCOFAGO, NIDEN DIV 187, DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED, THY SERPENT, ANAAL NATHRAKH, CARPATHIAN FOREST, SAMAEL, IMPALED NAZARENE, KVIST, DESASTER, ROTTING CHRIST, VARATHRON, NEKROMANTIA, TORMENTOR, 1349, VULCANO, ALGAION, NIFELHEIM, OLD MAN'S CHILD.

 

N.W.O.B.H.M.: MOTORHEAD, VENOM, SAXON, ANGEL WITCH, SATAN, WITCHFYNDE, DIAMOND HEAD, BLITZKRIEG, ATOMKRAFT, SWEET SAVAGE, TOKYO BLADE, TANK, RAVEN, GIRLSCHOOL, CLOVEN HOOF, WITCHFINDER GENERAL.

 

Traditional Metal/Rock: RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH, DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, URIAH HEEP, KISS, PINK FLOYD.

FAVORITE ALBUMS:

 

Death Metal:

 

DEATH "Scream Bloody Gore", MORBID ANGEL "Altars Of Madness", CANNIBAL CORPSE "Tomb Of The Mutilated", IMMOLATION "Dawn Of Possession", SUFFOCATION "Effigy Of The Forgotten", DEICIDE "Deicide", SINISTER "Diabolical Summoning", ANGEL CORPSE "The Inexorable", VADER "The Ultimate Incantation", ENTOMBED "Left Hand Path", DISMEMBER "Like An Ever Flowing Stream", GRAVE "Into The Grave", MALEVOLENT CREATION "Retribution", INCANTATION "Mortal Throne Of Nazarene", NECROPHOBIC "The Nocturnal Silence", OBITUARY "Slowly We Rot", HYPOCRISY "Osculum Obscenum", MASSACRE "From Beyond", CARCASS "Necroticism", UNLEASHED "Where No Life Dwells", BOLT THROWER "War Master", NAPALM DEATH "Harmony Corruption", DEEDS OF FLESH "Inbreeding The Anthropophagi", MONSTROSITY "Imperial Doom", NILE "Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka", HATE ETERNAL "King Of All Kings", MASACRE "Ola De Violencia".

 

Thrash-Speed Metal/Crossover:

 

EXODUS "Bonded By Blood", METALLICA "Kill 'Em All", SLAYER "Show No Mercy", DARK ANGEL "Darkness Descends", KREATOR "Pleasure To Kill", SODOM "Persecution Mania", DESTRUCTION "Infernal Overkill", MEGADETH "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?", EXUMER "Possessed By Fire", WHIPLASH "Power & Pain", CELTIC FROST "Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return", SACRIFICE "Forward To Termination", RAZOR "Evil Invaders/Executioner's Song", EXORCIST "Nightmare Theater", POSSESSED "Seven Churches", LIVING DEATH "Vengeance Of Hell", TESTAMENT "The Legacy", METAL CHURCH "S/T", HEATHEN "Breaking The Silence", HALLOWS EVE "Tales Of Terror/Death & Insanity", ONSLAUGHT "Power From Hell/The Force", SABBAT "Dreamweaver", VIO-LENCE "Eternal Nightmare", OVERKILL "Taking Over/Feel The Fire", RIGOR MORTIS "S/T", SACRED REICH "Surf Nicaragua", SEPULTURA "Beneath The Remains", BULLDOZER "The Day Of Wrath", FORBIDDEN "Forbidden Evil", THE ACCUSED "More Fun Than...", D.R.I. "Thrash Zone", S.O.D. "Speak English Or Die", ANTHRAX "Spreading The Disease"/'Among The Living", ANNIHILATOR "Alice In Hell", HELLOWEEN "Helloween/Walls Of Jericho".

 

Heavy Metal:

 

ACID "Acid", IRON MAIDEN "Iron Maiden/"The Number Of The Beast"/"Powerslave"/"Somewhere In Time"/"7th Son Of A 7th Son", JUDAS PRIEST "Painkiller", ACCEPT "Metal Heart", DIO "Holy Diver", KING DIAMOND "Abigail"/"Them", MERCYFUL FATE "Melissa"/"Don't Break The Oath", MANOWAR "Sign Of The Hammer", MANILLA ROAD "Crystal Logic", WARLOCK "Burning The Witches", BUDGIE "Nightflight", OZZY OSBOURNE "Blizzard Of Ozz"/"The Ultimate Sin", GRIM REAPER "See You In Hell", METALUCIFER "Heavy Metal Chainsaw", KRAKEN "Kraken", SAVATAGE "Sirens"/"The Dungeons Are Calling".

 

Black Metal:

 

BATHORY "S/T", MAYHEM "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas", EMPEROR "In The Nightside Eclipse", DISSECTION "Storm Of The Light's Bane", MARDUK "Opus Nocturne", DARK FUNERAL "The Secrets Of The Black Arts", DARK THRONE "Under A Funeral Moon", BURZUM "S/T", LORD BELIAL "Enter The Moonlight Gate", ENSLAVED "Frost" SATYRICON "The Shadowthrone", GEHENNA "Seen Through The Veils Of Darkness", ABIGOR "Nachthymnen", SARCOFAGO "I.N.R.I.", DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED "Autumn Roars Thunder", BESTIAL WARLUST "Blood & Valour", IMMORTAL "Pure Holocaust", THY SERPENT "Into Everlasting Fire" (Demo 1995), CARPATHIAN FOREST "Through Chasm, Caves And Titan Woods", SAMAEL "Worship Him"/"Blood Ritual", IMPALED NAZARENE "Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz", ROTTING CHRIST "Thy Mighty Contract", VULCANO "Bloody Vengeance".

 

N.W.O.B.H.M.:

 

MOTORHEAD "Ace Of Spades", VENOM "Welcome To Hell"/"Black Metal", SAXON "Denim & Leather", DIAMOND HEAD "Lightning To The Nations", ANGEL WITCH "S/T", WITCHFYNDE "Give 'Em Hell", RAVEN "All For One", ATOMKRAFT "Future Warriors", CLOVEN HOOF "S/T", TANK "Filth Hounds Of Hades".

 

Traditional Metal/Rock:

 

BLACK SABBATH "Paranoid"/"Master Of Reality"/"Sabotage"/"Heaven & Hell"/"Born Again"/"Dehumanizer", RAINBOW "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow"/"Rising", DEEP PURPLE "Machine Head"/"Perfect Strangers", KISS "S/T"/"Destroyer"/"Creatures Of The Night", LED ZEPPELIN "IV", PINK FLOYD "Dark Side Of The Moon"/"The Wall".

FAVORITE MOVIES:

 

HALLOWEEN I & 2, FRIDAY THE 13TH 1-4, FULL METAL JACKET, APOCALYPSE NOW, WIND TALKERS, EVIL DEAD 1 & 2, STAR WARS TRILOGY, PHANTASM 1 & 2, ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND AKA "SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH", HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAY OF THE DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 1 & 2, THE EXORCIST 1, THE OMEN, DAGON, ROSEMARY'S BABY, SCANNERS 1, THE TOXIC AVENGER, THE AMITYVILE HORROR 1 & 2, TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, THE SHINNING, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, CARRIE, CEMETERY MAN, SHOCK WAVES, CLASS OF 1984, RESIDENT EVIL 1, WAXWORK, THE THING, SLEEPAWAY CAMP 1, 2 & 3, SHOGUN ASSASSIN, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, PSYCHO I, JAWS 1 & 2, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, MANIAC, DEAD END, THE HOWLING, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, DEVIL'S REJECTS, THE HILLS HAVE EYES (original & remake!), HIGH TENSION, HELLRAISER 1 & 2, FRIGHTMARE, FRIGHT NIGHT, THE FOG, DOG SOLDIERS, THE ENTITY, THE DESCENT (yeah, I loved it!), DEAD ALIVE, DEAD BIRDS, CREEPSHOW, BASKET CASE, THE CHANGELING, SUSPIRIA, BAD TASTE, THE BURNING, THE WITCH AKA "SUPERSTITION", SAW 1.

FAVORITE WRITERS/BOOKS:

 

- H.P. LOVECRAFT/The Necronomicon (yes, in my humble opinion is a creation of Lovecraft's mastermind), The Call Of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Haunter Of The Dark, The Whisperer In The Darkness, The Color Out Of Space, Pickman's Model, The Horror At Red Hook, The Dreams In The Witch House, The Lurking Fear, Dagon, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Transition Of Juan Romero, The Tomb, The Strange High House In The Mist, among tons more!.

- EDGAR ALLAN POE/The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Raven, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Premature Burial, The Devil In The Belfry, The Masque Of The Red Death.

- ALEXANDRE DUMAS/The Vampire.

- ALGERNON BLACKWOOD/The Wendigo, Ancient Sorceries, The Empty House, A Victim Of Higher Space, The Human Chord.

- ALEISTER CROWLEY/Liber Samekh, The Book Of The Law, The Vision & The Voice, Confessions, The Goetia: The Lesser Key Of Salomon The King & others.

- FREDERICK NIETZSCHE/Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Antichrist, Human-All Too Human, The Twilight Of The Idols.

- LORD BYRON/Darkness, My Soul Is Dark, Fare Thee Well, By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept + more!.

- JOHN DEE/Translations

- JORGE LUIS BORGES/Ficciones, El Libro De Los Seres Imaginarios, El Jardin De Los Senderos Que Se Bifurcan, El Informe Brodie, La Muerte Y La Brujula.

- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE/Existentialism is a Humanism, Critique of Dialectical Reason, Roads to Freedom, Being and Nothingness.

- GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ/La Hojarasca, 100 Años De Soledad, El Otoño Del Patriarca, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Relato De Un Naufrago (Nope, I didn't like "Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes", sorry!).

- FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKI/Los Hermanos Karamazov, El Jugador, Pobres Gentes, Memorias de la Casa Muerta.

- ELIPHAS LEVI/Dogma and Ritual of High Magic, A History of Magic, Transcendental Magic, The Key of Great Mysteries, Lesser Key of Solomon.

- BRAM STOKER/The Lady Of The Shroud, The Mistery Of The Sea, Dracula's Guest (Short Story), Dracula.

- GOETHE/Faust (both parts!), The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Sorrows of Young Werther.

- S. L. MACGREGOR MATHE/The Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis).
- DANTE ALLIGIERI/The Divine Comedy.

- RUBEN DARIO/Prosas Profanas, El Canto Errante, Azul.

- CHARLES BAUDELAIRE/Las Flores Del Mal (masterpiece), The Dance Of Death, The Evil Monk, The Remorse Of The Dead, Don Juan In Hades.

- PETER CARROLL/All his works about Chaos Magic.

- FRANCIS BARRETT/The Magus.

- CARLOS CASTANEDA/Las Ensenanzas de Don Juan, Relatos de Poder, Una Realidad Aparte, El Lado Activo del Infinito, among others.

- HECTOR ESCOBAR/Testimonios Malditos, Cosmogonias, Estetas y Heresiarcas plus tons of short essays & poems (in my opinion, Hector Escobar is one of the most underrated writers/occultists in the world nowadays, he'll probably be hailed as the new Aleister Crowley in the next century).

- MICHAEL FORD/Phosphorus (Great inspiration for the new album's concept).

FAVORITE FOOD: Colombian, Chinese & Italian.

FAVORITE BEER: Radegast, Pilsner Urquell, Gambrinus, Becks, Heineken, Carlsberg, Molson, Grolsch, Coors, Rolling Rock, Amstel, Clausen (RIP), Poker, Pilsen, among others.